About

Motivated fully registered clinician with more than 7 years of working experience in providing HIV/TB services, general patient care which includes diagnosing, management and treatment of diseases, clinical mentor-ship of Health worker and students (Clinical officers, Nurses & psychosocial couns...

Skills

  • Customer service
  • Healthcare
  • English
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Recommendations

Jack Phiri

 8/22/2024
8

"Dedicated to duty and committed to achieving tasks within the set deadline. Passionate about patients and clients and aims to provide quality and detailed care to clients. He is also an effective program co-ordinator."

Lazden Lazard

 6/13/2024
9

"He's hard working , team player ,innovative and proactive ."

3 recommendations in total
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Experience

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • Liaise with CIDRZ and District Health Offices, as well as other implementing partners and
  • stakeholders, within the supported region on issues relating to TB programming.
  • Offer support to community partners to conduct contact and defaulter tracing for both drugsusceptible and drug-resistant TB cases.
  • Active TB case finding is strengthened by completing the TB diagnostic cascade at the facility
  • level.
  • Provide support to the effective referral system of tuberculosis and HIV patients to ensure the
  • integration of TB and HIV services within the facilities.
  • Conduct supportive and supervisory visits to TB and HIV care facilities, prepare reports on
  • supervisory visits, and remedial actions on constraints.
  • Participate in all TB and TB/HIV forums at the local level and provide updates as required.
  • Collaborate with the provincial and district TB focal point persons to organize and coordinate
  • TB data review meetings.
  • Support TB training efforts at the district and provincial level, and provide effective
  • mentorship to clinicians and nurses on TB programming, such as drug-resistant TB and the appropriate drug susceptibility testing.
  • Conduct MDR TB surveillance to track access to and results of the DST among several highrisk groups, and support is provided for facilities to conduct TB mortality audits.
  • Liaise with District TB/HIV staff, quality improvement focal persons, laboratory technologists,
  • and other key staff to support quality improvement projects in facilities with performance
  • gaps.
  • Support improved use of TB reporting and recording tools, and work with the DHO and District
  • TB/HIV Coordinator to address to identified barriers/challenges.
  • Support drug surveillance and monitoring, through the submission of pharmacovigilance
  • reports at the facility level, and working closely with the PPM coordinator to ensure effective
  • linkages between public and private facilities.
  • Strengthen entry, referral, and exit screening in correctional facilities.

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • Working with the senior clinical lead and the informatic specialist:
  • Conducting skills trainings for clinical mentors
  • Conducting SmartCare usability surveys.
  • Conducting user acceptance testing and provide feedback to respective facilities
  • Conducted maps for eLMIS and smart-care + in readiness for the interlinking of the two
  • software.
  • Conducted SmartCare training and module formulation in the new SmartCare plus
  • application.
  • Preparation of business requirement documents

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • February, 2022 - August, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Working with the facility ART and MCH in-charge:
  • Support Health facility staff in HIV clinical management to ensure immediate initiation of ART
  • as part of the test and start strategy.
  • Strengthen HIV testing activities with a focus on PITC and monitor index case strategy
  • implementation.
  • Strengthen access to viral load monitoring by supporting providers to request viral load test
  • whenever indicated and interpretation of the results.
  • Review and report data daily for each step of the HIV cascade
  • Identify service delivery gaps and stock management
  • Monitor achievement of the site level targets and discuss results and remediation measures with Health facility staffs

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • December, 2019 - February, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Timely initiation of newly diagnosed HIV adults and Paediatrics individuals on ART in
  • accordance with standard national guidelines.
  • Managing all unsuppressed clients and reports outcomes
  • Monitoring PLHIV initiated on ART by doing their viral loads in accordance with the national
  • guidelines.
  • Establishing a workable and proactive system to timely track patients missing appointments,
  • ensuring that there is collaboration with Lay Counsellors to undertake immediate tracking.
  • Ensuring that all clients and their results are entered in SmartCare within 24hr of their receipt.
  • Attending weekly Tele-echo MOH meetings.
  • Preparing weekly GSM reports and help the facility analyze and collect data.
  • Ensuring that clinical reviews for PLHIV are done at every clinical visits i.e. screening for TB
  • and other opportunistic infections.
  • Timely detection and treatment of opportunistic infections such as TB.
  • Referring all WLHIV of child bearing age for cervical cancer screening in line with the national
  • guidelines.
  • Providing nutritional assessment to all PLHIV and offer appropriate advice and support
  • according to the assessment outcomes.
  • Collaborating with facility staff especially the retention team to ensure tracking is initiated
  • within 24 hours for all clients missing appointments.
  • Participating in the formulation of QI projects and making sure that meetings are attended.
  • Providing HIV preventive services such as PrEP, PEP and linkage to VMMC.
  • Scaling up TPT uptake by ensuring that all the eligible PLHIV are commenced as per national
  • guidelines.

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • October, 2018 - December, 2019
  • Fulltime
  • Provided the complete range of services to ART clients on a daily basis.
  • Initiated new clients on to treatment using the most recent treatment guidelines from
  • ministry of health.
  • Ensured that ART clients have their laboratory investigations and receive their results as per
  • national standards.
  • Followed up with the Laboratory on outstanding results; Informed Facility about any signs of
  • drug resistance that I observed.
  • Worked with treatment adherence supporters to ensure that all patients are retained on
  • treatment and that they get positive outcomes from treatment.
  • Referred clients who are not ART adherent to treatment adherence supporters for
  • counselling and to develop adherence plan including parents struggling with pediatric adherence
  • Worked with nutritionists to provide all clients with a Nutrition Assessment and Counselling
  • service.
  • Established a system for daily data review on key indicators which includes reporting
  • anomalies or data spikes to supervisor.
  • Conducted consultative facility level meetings with the aim of sharing and reviewing data and
  • making action plans.
  • Enhancing communication pattern with the TB department to make a two-way referral and
  • rule out co-morbidity of HIV and TB.
  • Provide on-site mentorship to facility staff on new developments in ART.
  • Complete monthly and quarterly reports as well as participate in data quality audit activities.

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • Served as Chavuma Mission - Hospital Affiliated Health Centre (HAHC) In-Charge and Facility ART
  • Focal Point Person:
  • Provided ART services at facility level.
  • Coordinated all HIV related activities at the district level
  • Monitored the community-based volunteers
  • Championed the importance of proper documentation.
  • Offered Technical support in all facilities in the district.
  • Attending and chairing ART inter-facility meetings, facility and district performance review
  • meetings.
  • Started and implemented community and facility based differentiated care models in the
  • district with the help of (CHAZ) churches Association of Zambia.
  • Doing morning ward rounds and on-calls.
  • Conducting deliveries.
  • Acted as instructor for onsite training students.
  • Provided mentorship to Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers.

Lastone Mulikula

Work experience
  • Provided obstetric services (antenatal and conducting deliveries).
  • Provided emergency services which included resuscitation.
  • Doing ward rounds with medical officers.
  • Attending to both acute and chronically ill patients in OPD and IPD.
  • Providing tb/art services.
  • Organizing and attending clinical meetings.
  • Documentation of relevant information in standard registers and tally-sheets,

Related persons

Jack Phiri

 8/22/2024
8

"Dedicated to duty and committed to achieving tasks within the set deadline. Passionate about patients and clients and aims to provide quality and detailed care to clients. He is also an effective program co-ordinator."

Lazden Lazard

 6/13/2024
9

"He's hard working , team player ,innovative and proactive ."

3 recommendations in total
See all recommendations